Alonso and Aston Martin’s expected reaction: “Things change quickly”

Fernando Alonso it is clear after a F1 Monaco GP where he emphasized the lack of rhythm of a car in which, however, he believes he could have been in Q3 if not for the traffic that made the Monegasque classification bitter. “If you look at the results, we are not in the Top-5 group”he pointed out before the press entered Monacowith them MD, although he did so while showing confidence that the green team can overcome the slump in which it currently finds itself, after the first 8 races of the season. F1 World Cup 2024.

“Overall, it was a tough weekend. Obviously, you learn a lot through adversity, so that’s what we’re trying to do, but it’s been tough… Obviously not perfect, in the current form we seem to be returning to the middle zone instead of looking at the front ones.“said the Spaniard, although giving an optimistic outlook for the future.

“But these things can change quickly. We have seen in many other examples how quickly things can change. You have a good update on the car (new parts) and you can move five or six positions, so that is what we want to do and we work hard in that direction,” said the man from Oviedo.

His teammate, Lance Stroll, was along the same lines: “It seems that we are not very competitive today, so we have to fix some things and find some rhythm in the car.”

“Now is the time to regroup as a team, focus on improving and coming back stronger to Canada,” said team manager Mike Krack.highlighting Fernando’s bad luck for qualifying in Monaco due to traffic, something important at this track because of how impossible it is to overtake.

When will the new parts arrive?

To take a step forward and start reacting, the green team needs to improve the immediate performance of the evolution packages they bring to the track. Due to their latest improvements, their rivals have improved even more than the Silverstone team.

However, for now, Aston Martin has not confirmed when its next major evolutions will arrive after bringing new parts to nearly every race, especially in Imola, with an important new package that did not have the expected results from the start and where Fernando rode with experimental settings in the race to provide basic data for the engineers to find the right path in new evolutions. We will have to wait for a very tight F1 where most teams are taking steps forward.

Alonso trusted Lawrence Stroll

Fernando Alonso already pointed this out in the run-up to the Monaco GP on how much a team’s situation can change in an even F1 match, as McLaren has made clear in its surprising development from last year, when they started at the back, until reaching the fight for victories in this year.

“McLaren to Austria, race 7 last year, I was fighting for Q1 and they had a great team, you know, great people, great facilities and a great brand behind them, and I wasn’t in Q1… and then you find something where the car lives and then everything changes and it’s the same for us.”Fernando pointed out on Thursday in Monaco.

“Last year until let’s say mid-season we were the team that watched and copied yay, yeah, suddenly, you know, you can quickly take two or three steps back. So now we have to focus on ourselves. Back there? I think, unlike other teams, we have a good leader with Lawrence, not only the owner of the team, but also a very competitive person behind us and we will fix the things than other teams. thanks to him”he pointed out, emphatically referring to the Aston Martin owner and his desire to see his team at the top.

“Should we lower the performance? I think, relative to the others, we have increased the performance of our car. But the others, the step is a bit bigger than us and we have dropped a bit in terms of positions.”he commented in Monaco before the press at Aston Martin hospitality, where MD was present.